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CADRE Media Lab is pleased to announce Digital Autonomy, an exhibition of digital photography, video, painting, sculpture, and unclassifiable media hosted on New Art City that explores the multitude of interdependent signals crisscrossing the spatio-temporal void. While never physically co-present, Seniors in their culminating semester of their BFA degree in Digital Media Art came together in digital space and found synaptic resonance; a cognitive sympathy fostered by digital signals.

The name itself, Digital Autonomy, is a linguistic performance of cognitive dissidence. All digital objects are destined for translation, an act that requires a source, processor, and intended receiver. It begs the question; can any digital-thing, be autonomous?

Digital Autonomy asks the viewer to engage in fantasy, consider the physicality of the bodies they inhabit, cast spells over networks, and pokes holes in the cultures of post-colonial frameworks. As we begin to slowly emerge from our socially distant adaptations, the work imagines new possibilities for the kind of world we are passing into. The artists in Digital Autonomy suggest new forms of relationships between signals, objects, and environments; redefining body & space on their own terms.

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